US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Fixed bit depth processing for cross-component linear model (CCLM) mode in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,400, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Fixed bit depth processing for cross-component linear model (CCLM) mode in video coding" was invented by Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Dmytro Rusanovskyy (San Diego), Wei-Jung Chien (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder can be configured to determine that a first block of the video data is encoded in a cross component linear model (CCLM) mode; determine that the first block has a first bit depth; determine that a second block of the video data is encoded in the CCLM mode; determine that the second block has a second b...